Elizabeth Burke is a highly qualified, experienced and extremely practical consultant, located in Sydney, Australia, who has spent the past twenty years working with frontline and senior leaders as a facilitator and coach to achieve significant change in leadership capability and organisational culture.
Elizabeth brings a wealth of tools and strategies derived from her leadership programs and industry experience. She uses a collaborative style, interweaving humour and warmth to challenge the thinking of clients. Her focus is on developing leadership capability, enhanced interpersonal skills and improved day-to-day performance on-the-job. Sessions include goal-setting, skill-building and self-reflection with the objective of achieving action-based outcomes.
Here are just a few examples of how Elizabeth works with her clients:
The CFO of a semi-government organization in Brisbane had been identified as a leader in need. His style was autocratic and he was perceived as negative and disruptive. He was initially resistant to coaching and felt it was ‘all a waste of time’.
By the end of two sessions, he had the insight to admit that there were some needed areas of improvement. That began a relationship that lasted three years. After the first year, Elizabeth moved to Sydney. The CFO requested that Elizabeth be maintained as coach and consequently flew her back to Brisbane each month for the next two years of the contract. During that time her coaching was extended to include the CEO and the whole Financial leadership team.
Elizabeth worked with a large multi-national bank, facilitating a global Leadership program and coaching over 290 of their executive and senior management team throughout Australia and New Zealand. As a facilitator, she received the highest ratings worldwide. This included Europe, the UK, USA and the Asian regions.
The positive outcomes of her facilitation and coaching style were reflected in the following two culture surveys, which indicated a significant improvement in the perception of leadership throughout the whole organisation.
What Elizabeth's clients have to say is her best recommendation:
"Elizabeth, I wanted to thank you for The New Supervisor course you ran over two days. I certainly took a lot of actions away from it and have already started putting them into play. The course was well structured and I liked the way you gave sufficient time to the group to ask questions (even having time out for fun etc). Too many courses these days feel rushed and/or insufficient time allocated to the amount of information trying to be delivered. Your style of delivery was easy to understand, not dictatorial and kept everyone focussed.
You were enthusiastic about the material and really interested in hearing the student's experiences and thoughts. I especially liked the encouragement you constantly offered during the exercises and I enjoyed the way you acted as a facilitator during the workshops.
I wanted to provide you feedback as I work with a LOT of trainers in my line of work and most of them don't get much (if any feedback) on their courses. I believe it's not only worthwhile to deliver constructive feedback, but to recognise jobs well done.
Thank you so much for playing an essential part in the early stages of my management career - you have provided me with the tools, resources and knowledge to inspire me and build my confidence in my role. "
"Elizabeth Burke is a highly engaging extraordinarily well educated presenter and trainer. Her extensive theoretical knowledge coupled with her practical application across several decades in a wide variety of industries was truly of untold benefit. In terms of accessing student knowledge and encouraging seamless skills transfer her educational capabilities are standout and unparalleled. The course content is interesting, applicable in all workplaces and highly motivating in terms of providing options to carry out difficult interactions with care and grace. Highly enjoyable all round!"
The session flowed, was well thought out and great consideration was taken into how the session was delivered e.g. kept to time, allowed for smaller group and big group discussions/activities as well the time to share ideas, provide feedback and constructive criticism.
Very informative. Made me more self-aware of how I present myself. There was a balance of theory and group activities. Felt like I learnt tons of helpful information to help us improve as a team as well as individually and personally as well as professionally. The activities were very engaging and interesting to be part of.
Elizabeth was a fantastic facilitator. Very engaging and spoke clearly and gave great examples and insights. She knows the content well and made learning an enjoyable experience.
Elizabeth was an absolutely brilliant facilitator. She clearly knew her stuff exceptionally well, and was willing to share her many years (and variety of) experience to help us learn and get the most out of the course.
Contact Elizabeth now to begin your workplace transformation. She'll get back to you as soon as possible.
You can phone Elizabeth on 0401 691 002, or email her at elizabethburke@optusnet.com.au.
You might even want to check her out on LinkedIn.